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Join Websleuths Radio for the final discussion of THE KILLING SEASON
with Josh Zemam, Rachel Mills and special guests including Bob Kolker author of Lost Girls

NY - Brooklyn, BlkFem UP6317, 16-25, in woods @ Seaview Park, Sep'98

Skeletonized remains of an unidentified female were found in Brooklyn, NY on September 10, 1998. The female was found by sanitation workers in a wooded area of Seaview Park (aka Canarsie Park) covered with garbage. No clothing or personal effects were recovered. She had been deceased for several weeks to several months before being found. The female is black, 16-25 years old and stood approximately 5’05” tall. She had black curly hair but her eye color and weight are unknown. The images above are a facial reconstruction completed by an art student at the NY Academy of Art and depicts what the female may have looked like in life.

She certainly looks like a close match. I don't think there would be anything unusual in a Florida woman heading to New York City. It's a popular park and I think the population in that area is mostly AA, or was in the 90's anyway.

Opinions expressed are strictly my own (who else would they belong to???)

Again shows how we need to be very loose with the date ranges and other details when we search for potential matches. I've stopped using filters like race, age and height and even gender since we can't trust any profile to be accurate. Some cases don't seem to have any date of discovery so I'm not sure how to even see them.

Again shows how we need to be very loose with the date ranges and other details when we search for potential matches. I've stopped using filters like race, age and height and even gender since we can't trust any profile to be accurate. Some cases don't seem to have any date of discovery so I'm not sure how to even see them.

I find that NamUs does have those sort of errors fairly frequently. Perhaps it is not truly known the exact day Patrece disappeared.

In a lot of cases, it's simply the lack of information given to them, which of course, is frustrating. However, I think NamUs is a great tool, and I'm thankful for it.

Facial structure looks extremely similar, height, location (place of disappearance and location of discovery are about 20 minutes away from each other), age and dates all match. The hair is different (curly on UID, straight on Neddra) but I feel like that is a fairly unimportant detail and Neddra may have straightened her hair or been wearing a wig or something.

I feel really strongly about this potential match. Should I submit it?